Two days ago, I posted AHA data on the glut of history PhDs in the United States. Today, the Conference Board of Canada, the mouthpiece of big business in this country, has published a study complaining that Canada produces too few PhDs. In Canada, 209 people complete PhDs out of every 100,000 between the ages of 25 and 29 . The figures in other countries are: the United States 289 per 100,000; France 259 per 100,000; and Japan 210 per 100,000.
Is this necessarily a bad thing? I don’t know. People with PhDs helped to plan the Iraq War.
The Past Speaks 